Several severe thunderstorms moved through the area during the 30th and 31st.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
Several severe thunderstorms moved through the area during the 30th and 31st.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 1:30 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH CONTINUES TO LINGER ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY...AND WILL DO SO THROUGH TUESDAY. MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT...INDICATING THE LOW CLOSING OFF WEDNESDAY NEAR THE ARKLATEX. REMNANTS OF A STATIONARY FRONT WILL CONTINUE NORTHWEST OF ARKANSAS THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. EXPECT THIS TO REALLY WASH OUT DURING THE DAY MONDAY. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS MONDAY AFTERNOON. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE BEST CHANCES IN THE NORTH AND EAST. RAIN CHANCES DIMINISH FOR TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY WITH A LACK OF MOISTURE OVER THE AREA. A SHORT WAVE WILL ROTATE AROUND THE LOW THROUGH SOUTH ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY AND BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THAT AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... DRY CONDITIONS...AND NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL DURING THIS PERIOD. AN UPPER RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN STATIONARY FROM THE OHIO VALLEY...TO THE MID SOUTH DURING THIS PERIOD. SEVERAL EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS OF MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SUGGEST SOME WEAKNESS IN HEIGHTS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE GULF COAST DURING THIS PERIOD. PRECIPITATION FORECASTS WILL REFLECT A LOWER FORECAST CONFIDENCE REGARDING THESE SOLUTIONS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 68 89 69 91 / 10 10 10 10 CAMDEN AR 68 94 69 94 / 10 10 10 10 HARRISON AR 66 89 67 89 / 10 10 10 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 69 91 70 92 / 10 10 10 10 LITTLE ROCK AR 69 92 70 94 / 10 10 10 10 MONTICELLO AR 69 94 70 95 / 10 10 10 10 MOUNT IDA AR 68 90 69 91 / 10 10 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 66 89 67 90 / 10 10 10 10 NEWPORT AR 69 89 70 91 / 10 10 10 10 PINE BLUFF AR 68 93 70 94 / 10 10 10 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 68 91 68 92 / 10 10 10 10 SEARCY AR 68 90 69 93 / 10 10 10 10 STUTTGART AR 69 91 70 93 / 10 10 10 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...51 / LONG TERM...55
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 920 AM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-311000- BOONE-MARION-BAXTER-FULTON-SHARP-NEWTON-SEARCY-STONE-IZARD- INDEPENDENCE-JOHNSON-POPE-VAN BUREN-CLEBURNE-JACKSON-LOGAN-CONWAY- FAULKNER-WHITE-WOODRUFF-SCOTT-YELL-PERRY-POLK-MONTGOMERY-GARLAND- SALINE-PULASKI-LONOKE-PRAIRIE-MONROE-PIKE-CLARK-HOT SPRING-GRANT- JEFFERSON-ARKANSAS-DALLAS-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-DESHA-OUACHITA-CALHOUN- BRADLEY-DREW- 920 AM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORM DURING AFTERNOON HEATING WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 55
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:01 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A fence was damaged and one tree fell on a power line. There was also pea sized hail reported.
A flag pole and a tree were blown down by thunderstorm winds. The observer also measured 2.40 inches of rain in less than an hour.
Some docks were damaged near Blue Water Resort on Bull Shoals Lake.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, August 2015
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 599122, 599123, 599243.